Re: Date manipulation

From: Richard (riplin_at_Azonic.co.nz)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: 30 Dec 2003 10:51:40 -0800

"Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote

> > > I was under the impression that this gets converted into one call though.
> >
> > How would the compiler do that ?
>
> By having a little bit of smarts. It isn't difficult to see that the same
> function was called 6 times in one display statement.

And what if it was FUNCTION RANDOM that was being called 6 times ?
Would the compiler think that it is a good idea to make that just one
call ?

How about FUNCTION READ_NEXT_RECORD ?

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